Science Weekly podcast: What role should science play in politics?

This special edition of the show focuses on how science informs policy in the UK and features
Chris Tyler and
Rob Doubleday from the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy, journalist and author
Mark Henderson,
Imran Khan from the Campaign for Science and Engineering, and science minister
David Willetts

As MPs plan their exit to the party conferences the public accounts committee has been examining the government’s localism policies. Photograph: DIGITEYES / Alamy/Alamy